Class Meeting 1B

Class Meeting 1B#

Class slides#

Below are the slides from today’s class embedded. Feel free to download them to keep them locally, or leave them archived here and just bookmark them. We will leave the website open even after the course is over for a reasonable number of years.

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Readings on Essay Writing#

Your next set of readings, on essay writing, will not come from the textbook. Instead, you’ll read the following set of publicly available resources.

  1. Purdue Online Writing Lab: Developing Strong Thesis Statements

  2. Douglas College writing: The essay

  3. Douglas College writing: Creating an Outline

  4. University of Chicago Writing Program: Argument: A key feature of college writing

  5. Harvard Writing Center: A Brief Guide to Writing the Philosophy Paper

  6. Purdue Online Writing Lab: Logic in Argumentative Writing (parts a, b, c, d, e, f)

Supplemental Content#

7 Public Speaking Essentials for Persuasive Rhetorical Skills

Acknowledgements#

Slides for CPSC 430 were developed and created by Dr. Kevin Leyton-Brown. The current iteration of the course resulted in minor adaptations and updates, but by in large, all credit of these slides belongs to Dr. Kevin Leyton-Brown and Hedayat Zarkoob.

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